The Ninth Circuit has directed a lower court to preliminarily block California’s “No Vigilantes Act,” concluding the federal government is likely to succeed on its claim that the state law impermissibly regulates federal officers. The ruling is an important early win for the United States in a closely watched dispute over the limits of state power when legislating around federal…
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Key points

  • Implementing an anti-bullying policy is an important starting point for workplaces in developing a holistic and comprehensive strategy for addressing and preventing bullying.
  • Anti-bullying policies should:
    • Clearly define bullying;
    • Differentiate bullying from legitimate feedback;
    • Specify guidelines for reporting and investigating bullying;
    • Afford confidentiality to the fullest extent possible;
    • Delineate consequences for bullying;
    • And specify proactive

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California’s judicial elections pose challenges for voters due to the absence of party labels and limited candidate information. Evaluating judges requires examining trial court records for insights into their performance and decision-making.
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From : Blog Entry >> Farzad’s Blog EntryBest Practices & Overcoming Challenges When Going Through a Major Software Replacement Project Overview Replacing a core system is one of the best chances an organization gets to step back and look at how it really works. Most law firms are now moving from on-premises platforms to cloud and SaaS solutions, and…
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The Federal Trade Commission has announced a settlement with an auto dealership group over alleged price-transparency issues, underscoring that dealer advertising, pricing disclosures, and add-on fee practices remain a live enforcement priority. Even without a headline-grabbing court opinion attached, the matter is important: it shows the agency continuing to police how vehicle prices and fees are presented to consumers, particularly…
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Jennie Morawetz, who was named this week as CEO of regulatory intelligence company SCOREalytics, wants the company’s product to become the accepted standard for how lawyers keep up with regulatory change.“I want using SCORE to be the standard for due diligence, or for a general counsel who’s tasked with staying on top of changes and updating the board quarterly…
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From : Blog Entry >> ILTA’s Blog EntryComprehensive report provides benchmarking data and trend analysis to support compensation, budgeting, and workforce planning decisions across the legal sector Chicago, IL— October 2026 — The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) today announced the release of the 2026 Compensation Survey Results Report , a comprehensive resource designed to help law firms make…
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The Q4 Landing Strip: Landing the Plane and Clearing DecemberEvery autumn, the professional world defaults to the year-end sprint: digging deep, clearing the backlog, and pushing to midnight on December 31st in a cloud of dust. Nowhere is this pressure more visceral than in billable-hour or quota-driven environments, where you suddenly realize you need to average 200 hours a month…
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Key takeaways

  • The Council of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted last month to repeal ABA Standard 206, the law school accreditation standard requiring commitments to diversity and inclusion.
  • The standard has been suspended since February 2025 and has not been enforced since 2024.
  • The Council said

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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. For all the cultural excitement surrounding generative text and conversational chatbots, modern language models remain fundamentally tethered to human prose. They predict the next token based on things humans have already written down. But nature does not write memos. The atmospheric circulation driving supercells, the delicate migration pathways of endangered ecosystems,…
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Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer take The Geek in Review on the road to Atlanta for a conversation following the GDS AI Summit. Meeting with leaders from across industries offers a fresh perspective on familiar legal technology challenges: messy data, uncertain ownership, and the pressure to turn artificial intelligence experiments into measurable business improvements. Their shared takeaway offers some reassurance…
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